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(Nonoael.) J. 'Bl SWEBTLAND.

- PLOUR AND MBAL'BIN, AND SIPTER.

' No'. 395,639. Patented Jan. l, 1889.

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UNITED 4STATES PATENT Ormes,

JEROME B. SIVEETIIANDVOF PONTIAC, lNIICIINrAN, ASSIGIIOR TO ENOCH M. BEEBE, OF HURON, ILIXKOTA TERRITORY.

FILOUR AND IVIEAL. BIN AND SIFTER.

SPEIFCATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 395,639, dated January 1, 1889.

Application filed December 29, 1887. Serial No. 259,334, (No model.) I

To @ZZ whom it may concern.-

.le it known that I, JEROME 1% SWEETMND, a 4citizen ot the United States, residing at Pontiac, in the county of Oakland and State ot' lllichigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Flour and Meal Vlins and Sitters, ot.' which the following is a speci- 'lcatiom reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to certain novel and valuable improvements in flour and meal bins and sitters, the essential features ot which consist in improvements on the tlour and meal sitting device, which will be fully understood :from the :following description and claims,` taken in connection with the annexed drawings, in which- Figure l, is a vertical central section through my improved cabinet, taken 'from front to rear thereof. Fig. i is a vertical central section through the cabinet, taken in a plane at right angles tothe plane ot' Fig. l. Fig. 3 atop view ot' the body of the cabinet, the cover thereof being turned back to expose the lower extremity ot' the discharge-funnel and the agitating-bars applied Ythereto. Fig. i is a sectional detail, somewhat enlarged, showing the notched end ot' the agitating hand-lcver applied to its lixed stud to allow free vibration of this lever.

Referring to the annexed drawin by letter, A designates the rectangulaibodvot' the cabinet, which is provided with handles c a, by which it can be conveniently moved from one place to another. This cabinet-body is divided by a horizontal partition, Y), into two compartments, c c. The lower compartment, c, contains a drawer which is subdivided into two Arows oi' bins, c?, adapted to contain spices, &c., and between these bins is a longitiulinal receptacle, the side walls ot which have horizontal shoulders for supporting a removable knife-box, B,whieh is shorter than thelength of the drawer and can be moved end wisc therein.

In the upper compartment, c', is placed a removable pan, C, designed to receive the flour during the sifting operation. This pan may be ot' the well-known kind, and it is pret'- erably of sutcient size to nearly fill the area of the compartment c', from which it can be conveniently removed; Near the upper edge oi' the compari ment c', and rigidly secured to the inner sides of the trout and rear walls thereof, are two horizontal strips, d d, upon which is tree to slide a board, l), provided with a large circular' opening. ing is applied a downwardly-tapered pan, E, having a reticulated l,)ott01n, c, and provided with a flange which supports this pan upon the sliding board l). This pan or sitter E is arranged immediately above the receivingpan C, so that the line or silted l'lour will be received therein.

To the right-hand front corner of the sliding board I),I pivot a horizontal hand-lever, F, the t'ront end ot' which projects forward through a slot, f, made through the front wall of the cabinet, and is provided with swivelhandles g. The rear end ot' this lever F is notched at 71 and receives through this a stud, 7L', which is fixed into the rear wall of the cabinet, as elearl)r shown in Fig. +L. By means ot' this lever a person can conveniently reciprocate the slidin board D with its sitting-pan, and there will be no binding of either the said board or lever.

A designates a closelytitting cover which is hinged to the upper edge ot' the back wall ot the cabii'xet, and constructed with a circular aperture through it, through which passes the cylindrical discharging-neck ot' a funnel, G, the upper edge ot' which is suitably secured to a cvliiulrical tank, II, mounted upon and rigidly secured to the cover A', and provided with a removable cover, II. The upper edge of the funnelGis tlush with the inner surface of the tank H, so that there will be no lodg ment ot our at this point.

Across the lower end of the neck ot' funnel G are a number ot parallel rods, K, extending `[from t'ront to rear and designed to serve as breakers, rubbers, and pulverizers. These bars are in close relation to the sieve-bottom of the pan E when the cover is down, as shown in Figs. l and 2, and they serve to prevent the meshes of the sieve from clogging, as well as to reduce the lumps of i'lour during the sifting operation.

In operation the flour to be sitted is put In this openinto the tank H and this tank Covered. The pan C, being in place beneath the sifter, and a hinged door, A2, of compartment e Closed and latehed, a person `grasps the handles of lever F, and by vibrating it gives a reciprocating' movementl to the sifting-pan, into which the ('lonr from the tank and its funnel descends as rapidly as the sifted Hour passes through the sieve-pan bottom into the reeeivingpan C. lVhen the tank is emptied, the Cover A is turned back, as shown in Fig. 3, when the sifter can be removed and eleansed of foreign matters which were mixed with the flour.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I Claim as new, and desire to seenre by Letters Patent, is

The Combination of the body of the Cabinet A, provided with a hinged cover, A', a funnel, G, the neck of which is inserted in a central aperture in the said cover, the parallel. rubbing-bars K, secured to the lower end of the I said funnel, the reciprocating -boar'd D, mounted on ways immediately below the cover of the cabinet, a lever, F, pivotally attached to the board D, for operating it, the pan E, inserted in an opening in the said reciprocating board Dthis pan being provided with a retieulated bottom, e, the neok of the said funn el G being' somewhat smaller in diameter than the pan E and extending` down into the samein close proximity tothe reticulated bottom e, whereby the rubbing-bars K npon the lower end of the neck of the funnel will disintegrate and force the vflonr through the said retieulated botttom e, substantially as herein set forth.

In testimony whereof I aliix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JEROME B. SWEETLAND.

lVitnesses:

JUNIUS TEN EYoK, ABRAM W. LE RoY. 

